...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...happily complied with demands to "defund the police," slashing the NYPD’s operating funds by nearly a billion dollars and canceling more than 1,000 planned hires, protesters remained unsatisfied given that de Blasio refused to officially sign the change into law.
The protest had dwindled in recent days, but early Wednesday morning, NYPD cleared what remained, tossing demonstrators out of a nearby park and dismantling the City Hall tent city.
"Lines of officers in heavy gear were seen at Lafayette Street and Leonard near the criminal courthouses. Some were telling protesters and others on the street to move back as the swarm of cops moved in. Officials said those in the encampment were given a ten-minute warning before the clear-out began," a local NBC affiliate reported. "Protesters say their tents, tarps, and other belongings were trashed by police."
Police expected to arrest at least one person — an unnamed individual who, days earlier, had thrown a brick at an NYPD officer — but ended up taking at least 7 people into custody. Protesters put up only a brief fight before completely clearing out.
Occupy City Hall protesters were ‘s—tting and pissing’ in subway grates
[NYPOST] The "Occupy City Hall" protesters left behind a foul mess after turning a series of sidewalk grates into makeshift latrines during their month-long encampment in Lower Manhattan, an MTA supervisor revealed Wednesday."All the people who were here were going to the bathroom in the vents," the transit boss said."They were s—tting and pissing in the vents. They were using this as a facility, as a bathroom. It’s unbelievable what’s in there."
The supervisor was overseeing several workers with the unenviable task of using poles to poke disgusting brown sludge from between the bars of the metal grates.
The workers were also using a hose and broom to wash away the filth, which was littered with paper, cigarette butts and other debris.
A sanitation worker assigned to clean up the area said the problem wasn’t confined to the grates, located near the Citi Bike rack on the plaza at the southwest corner of Chambers and Centre streets.
"Apparently there is human s—t everywhere," the worker said.
MTA spokeswoman Kayla Shults said that the grates "provide ventilation for the subway system" but noted that there’s "a pan that catches anything that goes through."
"The team that was down there at Chambers Street was a vac team, so they could get the vac out and make sure the grate was completely clear," Shults added.
De Blasio finally cleans up anti-cop graffiti from Dinkins building after prodding
Doesn't want the Federales sent in?
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio finally took action Wednesday to clean the anti-cop graffiti from the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan and to clear out the remaining Occupy City Hall protesters from a nearby park — after he was hounded by The Post and other members of the press.
"That graffiti on those public buildings is being cleaned up right now as we speak," de Blasio said during his daily morning City Hall press briefing, even though a day earlier he could not even provide a timeline for when the vandalism would be scrubbed when asked by The Post.
The scrawlings, including some that read "F—k cops" and "ACAB" (for "All cops are bastards"), popped up on municipal property, including the historic Tweed Court House and Surrogate’s Court on Chambers Street, when protesters began occupying City Hall Park last month to demand $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD’s budget.
De Blasio appeared in no rush over the past few weeks to clean off the graffiti from the Dinkins building — named after the city’s first and only black mayor — but he was quick to restore the Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower after it was defaced twice last week.
Early Wednesday, a line of NYPD officers in riot gear also dismantled the month-old encampment at City Hall Park — a move de Blasio said he and NYPD brass called for at 10 p.m. Tuesday even though he told news hounds during a briefing hours earlier that there were no plans to end the occupation.
"It’s something I’ve been evaluating over the last few weeks," de Blasio claimed Wednesday in reference to ending the encampment.
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